MrIncognito

I figured most people who read HN know what YC is (the post was on HN).

This comment thread has been pretty helpful in figuring out future revisions. Thanks for the tip.

Yeah, I would include it if I could edit it (it doesn't appear to be editable).

You basically nailed every point. Cofounder who is late to the game is exactly the job description I was going for. I probably should have just said that :-)

Napping at work is something that people get nervous about, so we want to lead by example by napping mid-day to show it's cool.

Social impact is pretty important, not just in the doing good sense, but also in the making the economy more efficient sense. This is taking a huge market and shrinking it.

Eh, it's hard to talk loudly about something secret.

Heh hold your horses, Colin. The tools are only there to show you that you can't live in one and ignore all others here.

And you're right, I spent a lot less time telling you what's great about the company than I did on trying to make it obvious who we're not looking for. That's because we're looking for a very specific breed of person.

In this startup, you will not only be doing engineering, but also answering customer emails and chat messages. You will likely be an important part of strategy discussions, and you may have to write the odd press release. You may even need to go door to door and figure out what our customers want. Not every engineer is interested in that stuff, and I wanted to make sure those people didn't apply.

You will basically a cofounder-level person coming in at a stage where a lot of the risk is removed.

As far as some of the interesting challenges...

Heavy image processing, data processing, and analytics. Primarily client-side web application with client side data processing. Very heavy database loads with poor potential cacheability. Data synchronization across multiple clients. Near duplicate document detection. Graph problems which need to be precomputed to varying degrees to make the application very responsive. Spam detection.